ADAMS TWP — Police in Adams Township are looking for a Butler woman they say hit another woman with her car during an argument last week and refused to let a man out of the vehicle who was only trying to give her directions.

Adams Township police Tuesday filed felony aggravated assault, misdemeanor unlawful restraint, terroristic threats, simple assault, defiant trespass, harassment, two counts of recklessly endangering another person and summary reckless driving charges against Erika D. Steighner, 35. As of Thursday afternoon, she was still being sought.

Police said Steighner hit Sylvia Bittel with her vehicle in the 500 block of Beaver Street Extension, Mars, on June 11, and refused to let Mark Metzger out of the car after she asked for his help in finding the home.

Police were initially called to the home after a man, Randall Bittel, reported that his mother, Sylvia Bittel, refused to let him take his OxyContin medication while attempting to leave. Police said the medication was prescribed to him, according to the affidavit of probable cause.

Police said Randall Bittel was found to be wanted on a warrant for fleeing and DUI charges filed by Cranberry Township police from an alleged incident on May 23, and was arrested. He was allowed to call his ride, who was waiting down the street, and advise that person that he was going to jail and no longer needed to be picked up. He later identified that friend as Steighner, police said.

About an hour later, officers were again called to the home for a report of a woman attempting to run over another woman. The driver had fled and could not be located, according to court documents.

Both Sylvia Bittel and David Donatelli, who live at the home, reported that Steighner showed up in the driveway with music blaring, and when told to leave she cursed at the couple and refused.

“I went to the door and a female got out of the car waving (sic) her hands ... I told her to get out of my yard, she gave me the finger and called me a (expletive) and said she wasn't leaving,” Sylvia Bittel reported to police.

Sylvia Bittel then went behind the vehicle to get the license plate number and told Donatelli to call police, according to the documents. During that time, police said Steighner then put the vehicle in reverse and hit Sylvia Bittel twice, according to Donatelli, yelling “I'll run you over (expletive).”

“I was pounding on the driver's window and yelled for her to stop,” he reported. “I tried to open the door as she was going backwards, she hit Sylvia and took off down my driveway.”

Two passengers were in the vehicle at the time, Sylvia Bittel reported. She suffered a bruise to her leg and was checked by Quality EMS and released.

While on scene, police said Metzger called to report that he witnessed the incident, and had been in Steighner's vehicle. Metzger said he had driven Steighner's car to the home after she asked him for directions.

He reported that around 10:45 p.m. he heard beeping and loud music in his driveway, and found a frantic woman asking for directions to the Beaver Street home.

“I tried to give her directions but she could not understand my directions as she rambled about some guy who really needed his medication,” his written statement reported. “So she asked me to drive her car to (the home), and I did, thinking I was helping someone.”

After getting to the house, he said Steighner made him get into the backseat, and she and Sylvia Bittel then began to argue. Metzger reported that Steighner kept backing up in 2- to 5-foot spurts with the pedal to the floor, while Sylvia Bittel was behind the vehicle with her hands on the trunk.

“I told her to stop. She was going to kill someone and to let me out of the car,” he reported. “I could not get out of the backseat (because) the child lock was on and could only be opened from the outside.”

That's when Steighner drove off, Metzger said. He reported that he continued to demand to be let out of the vehicle, but “she drove around crazy and finally let me out at the intersection of 228 and Mars Valenica Road and I walked home from there.”

When he got home, he called police.

“As we drove away down Beaver Street she noticed that we passed a police car,” Metzger reported. “She said she could not stop to let me out (because) she could not get in trouble again.”

Adams Township police declined to comment regarding the case.